Something wrong in this world we living inSomething wrong, something needs some fixingMother Earth is crying, our children are dyingInnocent humans dying by the millionThe HIV catastrophe, an enemy with high degrees, so yeah, yeah!Evil on the rampage, like we are heading for the Stone AgeThere'll be a lot of dry bones underneath those big stones.

It's a crazy situationAnd every nation, oh yeah, yeah, is in confusion, oh myWe have universal problemsAnd we don't know how to solve themPeace cross over the bridgePeace gone up in the ridgePeace escape from the mindPeace is so hard to findAnd they searching in TrinidadFrom Toco to FyzabadAnd they searching the Middle EastAnd they hoping to find some peaceBut don't you give up nowThese problems can be solvedThere is lots of peace wherever there is love.

Cries of war and terrorismHeading for massive destructionWhen will it be over? Maybe in the future?When the ozone layer expose Father NatureAnd the sun gets hot like a boiling potAnd melts the ice, who will pay the price?Will it be the guilty, or the poor and needy?Will it be everyone of this generation?

It's a crazy situation, oh yeah, yeahAnd every nation is in confusion, oh myWe have universal problemsAnd we don't know how to solve them, oh no, noPeace cross over the bridgePeace gone up in the ridgePeace escape from the mindPeace is so hard to findAnd they searching in PakistanThey searching in AfghanistanThey searching in BethlehemThey searching in JerusalemBut don't you give up nowThese problems can be solvedYou'll find lots of peace, just try and find some love.

Too much hate in this world we living inWhere there's hate, there is no forgivingCattle breed more cattle, evil breeds more evilSelfishness is stupid, selfish are the wickedAnd when selfishness control your mindYou are possessed, you're human blindYou look in a mirror and see yourself superiorBut there are other mirrors and many more ideas.

Oh, it's a crazy situationAnd every nation, oh yeah, yeah, is in confusion, I'm telling youWe have universal problemsAnd we don't know how to solve themPeace cross over the bridgePeace gone up in the ridgePeace escape from the mindPeace is so hard to findAnd they searching in VenezuelaThey searching down in KenyaThey searching in North KoreaThey searching in AmericaBut don't you give up nowThese problems can be solvedThere is lots of peace wherever there is loveFind love and you would find peace, yeah, yeahYou would find peace...

Something wrong in this world we living inSomething wrong, something needs some fixingHell is getting closer, beware of the fireWhether war or terror, it's the same disasterThe gate of Hell is breaking down, and demons roam from town to townDon't let them possess you, ask the Lord to protect youAnd innocent children. Ask him to protect them

From this crazy situationWhere every nation is in confusion, oh me, oh myWe have universal problemsAnd we don't know, no, no, how to solve themPeace cross over the bridgePeace gone up in the ridgePeace escape from the mindPeace is so hard to find

And they searching in ItalyThey searching in GermanyThey searching in RussiaThey searching in ChinaBut don't you give up nowThese problems can be solvedYou'll find lots of peace, just try and find some love.

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!

..............................................................................................................................A Note From The Gull

Maybe I need to think about this some more but off the top of my head, I don't know another calypsonian who can manage so completely, while refusing to be bogged down by complicated references and mental gymnastics, to seize the listener's attention. Does he, like the Bassman, get into your head like an earworm, or do the rhythms of his music and consciousness sidle up to and synchronise so perfectly with our inner rhythm that we are not quite sure if Shadow is meeting us where we are or is he leading us out of ourselves into his realm. However it happens, the end result is that the connection is made and his message is received. When the Mighty Shadow beckons, I am willing to go along. This song, like many of his songs, beguiles us with its simplicity and delights with the depth of its wisdom.

"Too much hate in this world we living inWhere there's hate, there is no forgivingCattle breed more cattle, evil breeds more evilSelfishness is stupid, selfish are the wickedAnd when selfishness control your mindYou are possessed, you're human blindYou look in a mirror and see yourself superiorBut there are other mirrors and many more ideas...

But don't you give up nowThese problems can be solvedThere is lots of peace wherever there is loveFind love and you would find peace, yeah, yeahYou would find peace..."

Thanks for the music, Mighty Shadow!

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creationBlessed be my beautiful peopleBlessed be the day of our awakeningBlessed is my countryBlessed are her patient hills.

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Lord, Please walk beside me through this day. Clear the heavy air with the lightness of Your Presence. Guide my hands and steady my heart that I may give comfort when I cannot give hope, that I may give relief when I do not have a cure, and that I may radiate Your healing peace when the limits of science, time, and the human body overwhelm us all.Amen